92.7 KMLT Thousand Oaks, back in it's days as KNJO, was the first radio station west of the Mississippi to go stereo.
92.7 Jill FM has 4 towers, 1 in Thousand Oaks that is VERY HARD TO FIND which transmits at 3100 Watts (KMLT Thousand Oaks), 1 on Castro Peak near Malibu with 45 Watts (KMLT-1 Malibu Vista), 1 on a mountain south of Newport Beach at 690 Watts (KLIT Fountain Valley), and 1 on a mountain north of Victorville with 280 Watts (KELT Adelanto). When you hear "Jill" on the radio, she isn't live in the studio, it is just a bunch of voice overs done by a Canadian actress.
Woah...little old...might wanna change the sign...
This looks like the place!
This is their on air studio. Since they have no on air staff, they use the studio for storage. Hmm, where do they do the traffic report from?
It's a perfectly good studio just going to waste! Whammy and Zombie asked if they were looking for DJs, but they were told "we don't have DJs anymore".
Here is Jill's production studio, where they produce their jingles, commercials, and prerecord their traffic and weather reports.
Here is a picture of KMLT's tower. This tower is very hard to find, and they have done all kinds of work to make Jill FM's tower as invisible as they can. As you can see, the tower is painted sky blue to comply with the city's regulations. Thousand Oaks is truely and anti-antenna community.
This is an omni-directional cross-polarization antenna used on KMLT's tower.
92.7 KMLT Thousand Oaks had to do a downgrade when the tower came off of Rasnow Peak, due to a shadow in the Simi Valley which they're supposed to serve with 60dB. The station moved the transmitter to a location on one of the old 850 AM towers that gave it really good coverage into the Antelope Valley, but unfortunately it was short lived. The engineers forgot to consult with the city before doing the move, big mistake! The city of Thousand Oaks demanded that it be moved again, to a very bad location (where it is now) with the antenna only 40 feet above ground level. They used to have one of the best signals in Santa Clarita but now it suffers from multipath distortion and is barely listenable. They had to do all kinds of work making the transmitter as invisible as possible like burying the transmitter shack underground and painting the tower sky blue.
Since they didn't have any bumper stickers available, they gave us a Longley-Rice Coverage Map, and in our opinion, we think it's a lot cooler!
After screwing around with a scanner for over 2 hours, Whammy finally got it scanned in.
Thanks to the people at Jill FM for being so nice to us when we showed up!
Thanks to Kramer Firm for the tower site photos.
